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" Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth. "

Diane Lane

Beauty

Youth

Power

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" I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. "

" I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman. "

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Superman

" Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to. "

" If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have. "

" Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons. "

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Things

Hurt

" All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know? "

" Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. "

" We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us. "

" I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K. "

" Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. "

" But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy. "

" I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in. "

" The industry's memory is quite short, it's true. "

" There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.' "

" When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough. "

" When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy. "

" I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. "

Diane Lane

People

Father

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Diane Lane

People

Feel

" I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. "

" You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. "

" Independent films have a very different cachet than success films. "

" I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. "

" Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving. "

" Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder. "